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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CAÑAVATE (1902-1987) LOS NACIONALES. 1937. 44 1/4x32 1/4 inches, 112 1/2x52 cm. Ministerio de Propaganda, Spain. Condition B+: restored losses, repaired tears and abrasions in margins; creases in margins and image. A Spanish Civil War poster depicting the powers behind Franco's Nationalist movement, in the form of a political cartoon. Nazis, militant Italians, corrupt clergy, African mercenaries and Portuguese soldiers of fortune are all together, along with a map of Spain, hoisted in a noose. "Its fantasy and quality of drawing become a comic but devastating satire . . . [the] mood is gay, humorous even as it is deadly. The drawing and organization are visually and symbolically highly inventive and full of a crescendo of potent associations" (Palette xxi). Palette 10.
